Exodus 5:13

13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw."

Exodus 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters hasted them,
Kept them tight and close to their work, and were urgent on them to make quick dispatch of it:

saying, fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw;
they insisted upon it, that they did the same business at the brickkilns, made the same number of bricks every day, as they used to do when they had straw at hand. See ( Exodus 5:11 ) .

Exodus 5:13 In-Context

11 Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"

12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw."

14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?"

15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you deal thus with your servants?